OpenAI has confirmed that in June 2025 its abuse-detection efforts identified a ChatGPT account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender woman who murdered her mother, brother, and six people at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 10.

B.C. Premier David Eby called on OpenAI to share information on what it knew about the Tumbler Ridge shooter’s violent online activity, and why the U.S.-based company did not alert authorities prior to one of the worst shootings in Canadian history.